Celebrity Infatuation

I decided to focus on websites based on America's infatuation with celebrities. Contemporary American identity is over saturated with celebrities and so called celebrities. Sites such as www.perezhilton.com give the public access to all the latest Gossip from their favourite actor, sports person or non talented people from money eg. Paris Hilton etc

Celebrity at this moment in America is epidemic, and it's spreading fast, sometimes seeming as if nearly everyone has got it. Television provides celebrity dance contests, celebrities take part in reality shows, perfumes carry the names not merely of designers but of actors and singers. Without celebrities, whole sections of the New York Times and the Washington Post would have to close down. So pervasive has celebrity become in contemporary American life that one now begins to hear a good deal about a phenomenon known as the Culture of Celebrity.

Today, you could say that Americans are divided less by race, class, or political ideology than they are by their participation in celebrity culture. We are divided into two main groups: the famous elite and the unfamous masses who watch them. While the ranks of the famous swell, the unfamous masses bring with them varying degrees of sophistication to the spectacle, all of them making subtle and not-so-subtle emotional and intellectual investments in the illusion.